#toi

I like getting toilet paper thrown at me. ↗

— Joel Madden

#i #like #me #paper #thrown

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. ↗

— John Major

#first #game #hare #intellect #long

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#musicians #need #perform #repertoire #romantic

One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#apart #entirely #expansive #great #great virtues

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#begun #completed #consumed #destroyed #finishes

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

#either #grief #hands #idleness #man

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#bathroom #beneath #ghost #ghost stories #grab

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith. ↗

— Richard Morris

#catholic faith #certainly #decent #faith #great

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#fact #inner #inner life #interruption #life

She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer. ↗

— Kathryn Lasky

#beauty